Putin Looks to Trump for a Win in Ukraine
A T-shirt featuring US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on sale at a souvenir shop in St. Petersburg in 2017.
Photographer: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images
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For all the political theater at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump’s main foreign-policy message was that he’s a peacemaker. That’s of particular interest to Vladimir Putin.